Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Government and geopolitics

ProcurementGovernmentUSConfirmed

OMB memo M-24-18 sets AI buying rules for US agencies, including no training on their data

See how this story connects

Source: OMB Memorandum M-24-18

OMB memorandum M-24-18, dated 24 September 2024, sets requirements for federal agencies buying AI systems and services. Contracts for rights- or safety-impacting AI had to comply by 1 December 2024, and other AI contracts apply from solicitations issued 180 days after the memo. Contracts must define government data and model rights, should bar vendors from training public or commercial models on agency inputs and outputs, should require incident reports generally within 72 hours, and should include terms against vendor lock-in such as data portability and no cloud egress fees.

Why it matters

AI vendors selling to US agencies faced contract terms on testing, incident reporting, data use and portability, applied by agencies’ contracting officers.

When
24 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0130
Who
Office of Management and Budget; Shalanda Young

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from OMB Memorandum M-24-18. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at OMB Memorandum M-24-18

Source copy: download the source PDF as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Document the source offers: the source PDF. Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextOMB replaces Biden-era rules with new memos on federal AI use and AI buying

Cite this story

WTA-N-2024-0130: “OMB memo M-24-18 sets AI buying rules for US agencies, including no training on their data.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-omb-m-24-18-ai-acquisition-2024-09/ (source: OMB Memorandum M-24-18).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].